HeyJaredPithless Thoughts II: Postscripts on Life
Essays, drawings, aphorisms, and musings on all things big and small regarding life, death, work, and God.
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The Feast of the Cross (opens the original)
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On September 14 the Orthodox Church celebrates “The Elevation of The Cross”. The Cross is called “precious and lifegiving” in the Tradition. We don’t call the Feast “The Celebration of the Horror of the Penalty God Demanded Because of His Justice”. St. Paul says, “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself” at the Cross. (2 Cor. 5:19) On the Cross Christ was assuming the last horror of our fallen human existence and taking it all into Himself.On the Cross God in Christ offers Himself, Li
Multi-generational Households (opens the original)
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The “hot family topic” in our American culture is about people going “no contact” with family. The volume of articles would lead one to believe the baseline of familial relationships these days is abuse, narcissistic manipulation, control, exploitation and neglect. Some people think it is the fruit of our “therapy culture”, American individualism, and the fragility (or rigidity) of Gen-whatever’s psychological frameworks. Perhaps it is forward because it’s just clickbait that feeds our “Jerry Sp
No Regrets, No Tears Goodbye (opens the original)
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On July 24, 2021 my Mom closed her eyes early in the morning for the last time. Her last, shallow breath came several hours later, as mysteriously and quietly as the diseases that slowly took her body, mind and breath from her.It was late in the evening. The mortuary sent a polite, appropriately subdued young man to pick up Mom’s body. I wondered how someone so young got into the funeral industry. I noticed that he wore a beaded wood bracelet with a cross in it.I helped him wrap her up and move
What Have I Done?! (opens the original)
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